*****IL-Springfield vs Iowa Exh. Game Thread*****
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Kinda early to be worried about two of the teams best returning players, don't ya think?
I said earlier I think he'll earn a s;pot in the rotation in the next year
I meant to say what you just did...not a scorer ...not a surprise.
I am getting a Sam Hoiberg vibe, does that sound about right? Tia
What are you talking about? Pick a better post to try and call me out next time.
I made that same comment a while back. Under rated coaches kid who ended up being the glue for a pretty good Nebraska squad. Then of course we got the "little Lick" comments.
?? Your post #54 was "One of Koch or Sage needs to make a leap". Generally that would mean they need to play much better than last year. Down the stretch last year, especially in the NCAA they were two of our best players and difference makers.
I said when he was at the free throw line at the end of the game that you can tell the kid has been in the weight room. Sure he isn’t Andre Woolridge, but who is? For a kid a year and change out of high school, who didn’t inherit High-Major D1 genetics from his parents, he seems to be putting the work in to someday earn some important playing time.
It's funny how everyone was pissing and moaning prior to and even during the NCAA Tournament........until we started winning.
BAU for our fanbase.
The shot attempt in the paint that got stuffed was a bit Lil Lick-ish, but going by last night he can make his 3s and FTs.
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Agreed...they just look like a coaches kid from their play...good fundamentals and good effort on defense even if not the most athletic. He looks like he has a lot more potential than I gave him credit for.
I was thinking the same, but then immediately gagged because I compared him to a former Husker.
But unfortunately (as a Hawk fan), yes, that is the immediate comparison I thought of.
A very pesky pest on defense and the offense is good enough to stay on the floor for stretches.
Ya the athleticism and dominance you'd expect from a 7"3 guy is missing but the size and threat of him will be big benefit. We lost several games last year because we just couldn't match the other teams size in the paint including the E8 loss to Illinois. That's why centers are so high in demand. You either have size or you don't. He'll give are ball handlers and guys running off ball off screens a lot more freedom. If you don't respect him crashing down off the roll we can go over top for easy dunk/layup. Defensively he'll clog the middle and rebound. The impact he'll make will be greater than just his statistics imo which I think will be close to what they were at St Mary's.
Tom Davis used to say you need a big guy to neutralize the other teams big guy.
And we got the biggest of big guys. Except purdue, probably
BM mentioned in post game that he could have just ran the same actions to McKeever in the post over and over again (to score) but used this game to try a bunch of different lineups and plays. So it's hard to really gauge much IMO
Missing FTs is really the only "negative" I took from the game last night
I went to the game last night and while I am not a basketball savant...it was apparent to me that they were "trying things". It was, well, an exhibition.
I was not loving Coleman's FT's, form and concentration, though. I would not look for him to be on the floor much during fouling time. Just saying.
As usual lots of people being ridiculous in a 1st exhibition game. McKeever hasn't been a dominating presence even with his size and probably still won't be. But he's what Ben wanted after seeing all these giant teams in the B1G last year. He's not going to go out and get 20 and 10 but that's not what he's needed for. And of course it's certainly going to look differently when you lose a guy who handled the ball 98% of the time last year. And Ben is not the guy who likes to play 10 guys, never really has. Obviously trying to find out who plays better with who and who can and will play defense. Zero worries. I can guarantee that even if we lose a few early we will be an entirely new team later in the year.
Doodle couldn't watch due to some family obligations....but from the extended highlights on YT it sure looked like they tried some interesting lineup combinations. Will be fascinating to see how Ben fine tunes that as the season goes along. Defense was shaky at times, but maybe also a byproduct of still figuring out the personnel groupings.You going to watch this game @Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo?
Despite going to the Elite 8, it's pretty obvious were not quite a plug-and-play type of program just yet. Still very much in mix-and-match mode.
Weird game. At times athleticism looked terrific...at other times we looked like a slightly above average Y League squad. But overall, the point of these exhibitions is to knock off the rust, work on some things that are still nagging at the coaches from whatever they've seen in practice, and start the process of building cohesion. Looked like that kinda sorta started to work itself out for a nice chunk of time from the start of the second half until about midway through. Then it seemed to get sloppy again.
All in all, we really do seem to have a lot of nice pieces. Now we just have to have faith in Ben and his staff to put the puzzle together properly.
Ben said in the post game "Drew" had missed 4 or 5 days of practice, so I think he's been under the weather. Still in limited minutes he had 7 assists. They'll run the offense through him a lot, and he'll be a presence in the paint on defense.
I think he was talking about coaches sons. Hence kind of a Sam Hoiberg. Unhearlded hard worker, spark plug, glue guy.
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